News

2018

Students from the Common Law and Civil Law Sections at the University of Ottawa will take to the ice on Saturday, February 3, 2018 for the first annual Ottawa Law Classic in support of the Do It For Daron (DIFD) initiative.

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation invites applications for a Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology created in partnership with the University of Ottawa. This position is for a maximum of four months and welcomes graduate students from all Faculties at the University of Ottawa.

Common Law’s Professor Elizabeth Sheehy, Professor Michael Geist and Professor Allan Rock have all been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province's highest honour, awarded to Ontarians for excellence and achievement in any field.

What better way to start the year than by taking an intensive, three-week course that focuses on the application and interpretation of the United Nations (UN) Charter by the main organs of the Organization, including by the General Assembly, Security Council and International Court of Justice (ICJ).

In the matter of Delta Airlines Inc. v Gábor Lukács, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) has decided that it is unreasonable for the Canadian Transportation Agency (the “Agency”) to apply a narrow criteria for determining which complaints can be heard.

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto recently announced that Faculty of Law, Common Law Professor Tracey Lindberg will be its 2017-2018 Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow from February through June 2018.

Common Law’s Professor P.M. Vasudev recently launched two volumes of essays he co-edited with Professor Susan Watson of The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Capital markets and corporate governance are the subjects of the two volumes, which both have an international scope.

Nathalie Des Rosiers, former Dean of the Common Law and Civil Law Sections at the University of Ottawa, was elevated to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s executive council on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 as part of the premier’s cabinet shuffle.